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1
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How can you view the audio waveforms of your source material?

A

Toggle Source Record on Timeline

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What do you do with a waveform without much definition? (A brick waveform)

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Command Option K

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3
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Which editing functions are you most likely to break sync with?

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Splice OR Extract
Leaves gaps in timeline
Yellow CAUTION

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4
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How would you mark a source clip so it’s back-timed?

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Use only an out-mark on your source

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What is the difference between Lift vs extract?

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Lift removes a clip and leaves a gap

Extract removes a clip without leaving a gap and moves all clips forward (extract is for taking out a scene)

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6
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How do you change the default segment mode for when you Drag and drop?

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  • Right click
  • Timeline settings
  • Change the segment mode
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7
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What are two ways to add audio/video tracks?

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Right click to add new track
Or drag the original clip above
Shortcut- command y (video)
Command u (audio)
Command option y (select which track)
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8
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What is one method or shortcut to adjust gain?

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+/- then put in a number
arrows up and down (in increments of 1/10 DB)
Shift option modifiers

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9
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Digital Audio Scrub?

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Hold shift

hear the audio preview

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10
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What is a match frame/thru edit?

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Looks like an equals sign in white
When you cut a shot in half, on either side of the line the frames are adjacent
Has two white equals marks to say there is no media missing
If the equals sign is red that means the splice is not in the same state, or one side has an effect on it

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11
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What impact does ripple trim have on a track or a sequence?

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It’ll move everything down or upstream

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12
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How do you make a change to a transition effect in the timeline?

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Transition manipulation tool

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13
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Three types of effects

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  • Transition effects
  • segment effects (applied to entire segment to change the look of the shot)
  • motion effects
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14
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After a clip is stabilized how do you compare the clips?

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In the parameters box you can turn the clip on and off

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15
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How do you lock down a shot with the stabilize effect?

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Deselect steady glide

Steady glide by default turns on, locked down means deselecting

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16
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When using automatic color correction whats the order?

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HSL, Contrast, balance

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17
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When using automatic color correction in curves?

A

-CBC

Curves balance contrast

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18
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Under what category is the fluid morph effect located?

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Illusion Category

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19
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Is fluid morph a real time effect?

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  • No (you have to render it)
  • Green dots are for real time effects
  • Blue dot will show up in the timeline
  • FX palette there won’t be a color dot
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20
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What do the enlarge and reduce buttons in the effect preview button do?

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Rescale the image to manipulate the size by dragging the corners

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21
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How do you add an effect to a timeline on top of an existing effect?

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  1. Add option modifier to adding an fx
  2. Auto-nesting?
    -adding another fx to an fx
  3. Two ways to view effects?
    Expanded nest- double click→ you can hear audio and have access to entire timeline
    Simple nest- use arrows on timeline→ advantage is you only see the nested clips of that clip
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22
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Command tab helps you go through all your open tabs

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3 types of motion effects: freeze frame
Motion fx
And timewarp

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23
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How do you make freeze frames?

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Generated from source clip

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24
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How are motion effects created?

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Generated from a source clip

in and out and then you choose the speed

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25
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Which time-based effects are create new media, and which ones are applied to segments?

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Freeze frame and motion are created from source

Timewarp is applied

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26
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How many marks are needed for FIT TO FILL

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NEED FOUR MARKS FOR FIT TO FILL

In and out on source and in and out on timeline

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27
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Types of rendering → 4 types of processing

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Duplicated fields (Default): You never use it
Progressive scan: You want to change it to both fields (no interfiled motion, good for stills)
Interpolated: for interlaced footage
VTR Style: used for making footage smooth (older footage) Don’t use on your footage or slow footage
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28
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What are the steps to revise a title?

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—> Put position indicator on the clip
—> activate only that track
—> Effect editor tool

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29
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What color option should you choose to export for playback on a computer?

A

Full range

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30
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Which function can be used to find the media for a clip?

A

reveal file

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31
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Three letters of the start of the media file?

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MSM

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32
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When should you consolidate?

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When you want to move media

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33
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Which setting will resize an image to fit the frame?

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image size for current format

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34
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What is a group clip?

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A set of master clips with a common element

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35
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Keyboard shortcut for creating a group clip?

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Command, shift, G

36
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What is the shortcut to view a popup menu to view previously entered values in a custom column?

A

Option Click

37
Q

How is extend similar to trim?

A

Extend will never throw you out of sync, rolling trim

38
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What allows you to change the edit point between two clips in the timeline?

A

Double sided rollers

39
Q

What is the difference between using find or the search?

A

Search allows you to specify

Find is broad

40
Q

What value would you type to advance the playhead two seconds?

A

+200

41
Q

Trim mode:

A

P, Left bracket right bracket

42
Q

How do you get into trim mode?

A 
Press U
Click transition button
Lasso
A or S
Double click
43
Q

TRIM hot keys

A

M— left 8 frames
, . /
?– right 8 frames

44
Q

What function is associated with the play button when in trim mode?

A

-it plays loop

45
Q

When you look at the timeline how do you distinguish between slip or slide?

A

-the position of the pink rollers
Inside of clip—> slip
Outside of clip—>slide

46
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How can you ensure you maintain sync with using trim?

A

-turn on sync locks

47
Q

Which audio mixer mode enables audio key framing?

A

Auto

48
Q

What function is used to create panning effect for still images? What is the way to create dynamic pan and etc. effects?

A

Frame flex

49
Q

Name two source settings?

A
  • color encoding
  • Frame flex
  • Temporal adapter
50
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If you reframe a shot using frame flex on a clip in a bin how do you update the sequence to show the changes?

A
  • select sequence in bin
  • clip menu, refresh sequences
  • aspect ratio and reformatting options
51
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What are the four types of keyframe interpolation and what effect do they have on the movement between the keyframes?

A

Spline: Where its a fluid change of speed, auto eases
DEFAULT: Linear: no eases, the change in value is still gradual
Shelf: holds keyframe value until the next keyframe, sudden looking, no eases
Bezier: moveable handles, creates eases but has additional refinement

52
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What are the three types of retiming effects?

A

Freeze frame
Motion effects
Timewarp

53
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How are freeze frames created

A

Source clip

54
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How are motion clips created?

A

Source clip

55
Q

In terms of edit marks How does creating a motion effect via the fit to fill command differ from creating one via motion effect command?

A

You need four marks

56
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How are time warp effects created?

A

Applied to the clip

57
Q

How do you control where the blur affects the image?

A

Activating tracking tool

58
Q

Which button can be used to create a rectangle

A

The rectangle
Arrow is used to select and move shapes
The line with the circle allows to to resize
The square with the square in it activates tracking

59
Q

What is the inner box in a tracker called?

A

Defining area called the reference pattern

60
Q

Outer box in a tracker is called…

A

The search region

61
Q

How is the reference pattern used?

A

Defines the pixels that are going to be followed and tracked

62
Q

The search region is used as a correlation area?

A

Searches the area for the reference pattern

63
Q

How is a 3d picture and picture effect different from other effects you’ve worked with?

A

Its 3-d it adds Z rotation

When a 3d effect is applied it automatically resizes a clip by 50%

64
Q

When moving a clip vertically what keys do you have to hold down to make sure they don’t change position or timing?

A

Command shift

65
Q

What button in the display editor displays the keyframe editor

A

A little L- show or hide the key Frame option

66
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If you add a keyframe to the keyframe position bar under the effect preview monitor, what parameters are keyframes?

A

-all of them

67
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What does the reverse keyframe do?

A

It reverses the order of the keyframes

68
Q

How do you see expanded nesting

A

Double clicking on the clip in the timeline

entire timeline and audio

69
Q

playback performance indicator colors?

A

tell you why you need to render:

  • yellow is taxing your cpu
  • blue is taxing your drive
  • red is dropping frames
70
Q

What does the clear renders command do?

A
  • does not delete render files

- breaks the link between effect and its render

71
Q

Purpose of a garbage matte?

A

-roughly remove unwanted materials in the frame

The purpose of a garbage matte is NOT to remove full color

72
Q

Transparent layer of video is a….

A

matte channel

73
Q

How do you remove the correct color?

A

key color

74
Q

What parameter in spectra matte can remove unwanted elements? Similar to garbage matte?

A

Crop

75
Q

What is the Alpha in source monitor menu selection used for?

A

-alpha Channel

76
Q

What is the effect of adjusting the value of the tolerance parameter?

A

defines the width of the spread of the wedge in the spectrograph

77
Q

Name two tools that can be helpful for live review sessions?

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  • timecode burner

- timecode window—> bigger

78
Q

What effect can be used to add a watermark?

A
  • timecode burn in
79
Q

What might be one reason the timecode window is grayed out?

A

-hardware is not configured
The system is configured to output through hardware
(Toggles connect to hardware on and off)

80
Q

What does the video mix down do?

A

-when you have way too many video tracks
-to create a sequence that’s going to be re-used a lot
-Called flattening
A video mixdown DOES create new media

81
Q

What is an audio mix down used for?

A

used for mixing or finalizing audio within avid

82
Q

What’s the difference between send to and export

A

send to—> pre-made template for other programs

export you can customize and refine the settings—> edit parameters

83
Q

What color level option should you use when exporting for playback on a computer?

A

-scale from legal to full

84
Q

How do you create color bars and reference tone in avid?

A

-create tone media using audio tool

85
Q

What function can be used to find the media for a clip?

A

-reveal file

86
Q

What can you use to see render files/ precomputes on a drive?

A

-media tool

87
Q

Why is it important to open a sequence bin before you search?

A

-it won’t search unopened bins

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